A BRAVE teenager who postponed a major operation so a show could "go on" in York is now fit and well and preparing for her next entertainment challenge.

Nursery worker Sian Davies, 18, of Windsor Drive, Wigginton, suffered from ulcerative colitis, or inflammation of the colon, and had her large bowel removed.

But she postponed a follow-up operation, to enable her to live a normal life, so that she could play Peter Pumpkin-eater in the Rowntree Players' production of Jack And Jill in York. The pantomime took place in December, followed by the operation at the end of January. Sian was up and about within a week, and within five weeks she was back at work. Now she is off to St Austell in Cornwall next month to become an entertainer at a holiday camp. Sian, a former Easingwold School pupil, said most patients undergoing her operation rest completely for six to eight weeks - but her surgeon, Steve Leveson, and stoma nurse, Jackie Clemit, had expected nothing less from her.

Updated: 11:23 Tuesday, April 15, 2003